Presents stories of courage, determination, and resistance to multinational corporations and disastrous government policies that are harming the planet and describes how eleven Native people work to save our environment.

"Amid a global water security crisis exacerbated by climate change and biodiversity loss, this research explores how nature-based solutions (NBS) provide elegant solutions for recentering nature in 21st century global water policy. This research posits that the NBS concept is not new. It has been implemented by Indigenous Peoples as a form of water policy through Indigenous and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (ITEK) for centuries. NBS have only recently...

"Produced in conjunction with the documentary radio series entitled Watersheds as Commons, this book comprises essays and interviews from a diverse group of southwesterners including members of Tewa, Tohono O'odham, Hopi, Navajo, Hispano, and Anglo cultures. Their varied cultural perspectives are shaped by consciousness and resilience through having successfully endured the aridity and harshness of southwestern environments"--Provided by publisher....

"In Shishmaref, Alaska, new seawalls are constructed while residents navigate the many practical and bureaucratic obstacles to moving their entire island village to higher ground. Farther south, inland hunters and fishermen set out to grow more of their own food - and to support the reintroduction of wood bison, an ancient species well suited to expected habitat changes. First Nations people in Canada team with conservationists to protect land for...

This dissertation focuses on the North Fork Mono (or Nium ) Tribe's historiography and oral narratives about its land and water tenure. I begin with a recounting of my recent experiences in elementary school curriculum development about Native Americans and the environment and a discussion of the clash in worldviews that this work brought to the surface. Then, by drawing on secondary sources, on archival research into federal land records and anthropologists'...

Looks at how the I~nupiaq people of Alaska's North Slope must learn to adjust to a changing climate that threatens to disrupt their ancient culture.